On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Spring Framework 5.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC2 includes 63 fixes and improvements and is our last stop before GA proper scheduled 3 weeks from now.

Next up is Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6, stay tuned!

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Dear Spring community, we’re proud to announce the second release candidate of Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0. Since our last release, Spring HATEOAS has made great strides with two more milestones and two RCs.

Here’s the summary:

• Internationalization support for both HAL and HAL-FORMS.

• Performance improvements

• Spring HATEOS is now based on Spring Framework 5.2 and Reactor’s Dysprosium release train. This is critical to support downstream projects like Spring Data Moore and Spring Boot 2.2.

• Now supports Spring WebFlux applications that have both hypermedia and non-hypermedia endpoints.

• Improved major chunks of reference documentation.

• Created a Spring HATEOAS Gitter channel.

• Fixed issues in various media types to ensure they comply with spec definitions, and don’t throw unexpected exceptions.

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've just finished celebrating Labor Day here in the Long home, in San Francisco, in the US. It was a fun day spent with family and friends, and I wasn't sure if I could have any more fun but it's Tuesday, and you know what that means: another epic installment of This Week in Spring. I can't believe we're already in September, staring down the last few months of the year already! As usual, one of my favorite parts of the journey to the next year is the arrival of the epic SpringOne Platform show. This year is no different…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's episode I talk to Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Ilayaperumal Gopinathan ("Illaya") about his journey to open-source, batch processing and messaging, integration, and Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more. Enjoy!

• Illaya on Twitter (@ilayaperumalg)
• your resource for getting started with Spring Cloud Data Flow

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, stuck in a monster of a traffic jam trying to make it to another meeting. I'm so elated to be here to connect with amazing people and organizations. I'm also excited that, this week, I'll be speaking at the Bangalore Java User Group. Please, come out and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cove so let's get to it!

• I loved recording last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast wherein I got to talk to Google's James Ward, Okta's Matt Raible and Grand Cloud's Ryan Knight on the Simplicity Continuum
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RELEASE & 1.2.0.M1 Released!
• Collecting Custom Micrometer metrics has never been easier - Instana
• Deploying Spring Boot Applications - The Startup - Medium
• Smooth implementation of CQRS/ES with Spring Boot and Axon framework
• How To Keep the Layers of your Spring App Separate using Integration Tests - YouTube
• Spring Boot And Context Handling
• …

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.0.RELEASE and the 1.2.0.M1 release.

SBDG 1.1.0.RELEASE is available in Maven Central.

SBDG 1.2.0.M1 is available in the Spring Milestone repository.

What’s New in 1.2.0.M1

Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.2.0.M1 was a baseline release to align SBDG on latest GemFire/Geode and Spring bits:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC1

• Spring Boot 2.2.0.M5

• Spring Data Moore-RC2/2.2.0.RC2

• Spring Session Corn-M3/2.2.0.M3

With…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week I had the pleasure of talking with Ryan Knight and with the two people with whom I am copresenting at SpringOne Platform 2019, James Ward and Matt Raible.

• James Ward on Twitter: @_JamesWard
• Matt Raible on Twitter: @mraible
• Ryan Knight on Twitter: @knight_cloud

Hi Spring fans! I'm in delightful Denver and Boulder, Colorado, talking to customers and working with my buddies Matt Raible and James Ward on our Spring One Platform 2019 talk. It's going to be amazing!

I'm oh-so-excited to be working on today's roundup, as usual, because there's a ton of good stuff to cover, so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Hoxton.M2 Released
• Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3)
• Securing Services with Spring Cloud Gateway
• In last week's episode of a A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Spring and Spring Boot teammate Brian Clozel about performance, RSocket, and so much more.
• Announcing Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M2
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RC2 Released!
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.5.RELEASE & 2.2.0.M3 Available!
• Spring Tools 4.3.2 released
• The amazing Toshiaki Making has a great post on doing …

We are pleased to announce the third Milestone of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3).

NOTE: Spring Cloud Stream 3.0.0.M1/M2 was primarily to establish compatibility with Spring Boot 2.2.x. and therefore went unannounced.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3) modules are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Quick highlights:

• Spring Boot 2.2.x
• Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M2

Notable features and enhancements for this milestone:

Emphasis on functional programming model

While we're not (yet) deprecating @StreamListener and/or @EnableBinding, we are moving toward…